Manager, Software Engineering

Job Description

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130-year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.   

• Be part of an organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.  

• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.   
    

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that serve our company purpose to save and improve lives. An integral part of our company IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.    

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging in our global organization that partners across the entire company. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. 

Role Overview

Join our company as a software engineer as we innovate!  Our QE Platform team provides test tools and test infrastructure to enable end users to test.  As a Software Engineer, you will participate in a full stack development activity to design, develop, test, and maintain software systems. Our platform is grounded in AWS and Azure Cloud development of web applications, APIs, and also Python based RobotFramework.

What will you do in this role 

• Take full ownership as a Python Developer of the entire stack to architect, design, code, verify, test, and document our Test Automation Framework developed for RobotFramework using Python.

• Work with a diverse tech stack that includes Python, RobotFramework, RobotFramework Libraries, Databases, SQL, Java, Node, Tosca, AWS and Azure DevOps.

• Identify improvements to and new practices aligned to Technology Engineering standards & strategy and contribute to the Technology Engineering Practices within the product line where you work.

• Work within a team atmosphere and collaborate with other practitioners to implement our roadmap.

What should you have 

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any technology stream.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing Python based applications with experience developing for RobotFramework and RobotFramework Libraries.

• Proficiency in our tech stack, including HTML, CSS, REST API, HTTP, SQL, React, API, databases, Python, RobotFramework, and AWS Cloud Services.

• Necessary experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.

• Experience with version control using Git and CI/CD pipeline automation using GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Familiarity with AI technologies such as GPT and Copilot.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.   

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

VISA Sponsorship:

Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

Job Posting End Date:

05/8/2025

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